Pentesting Fundamentals for Beginners

Course details

Disclaimer

There is no one-stop application or course that can prepare anyone for entry as an Ethical Hacker and passing a cybersecurity exam. Exam preparation involves months of research and the extrapolation of information from multiple sources. Prepping for any cybersecurity exam takes months of studying and as such, this course should be treated as just one of many sources an exam taker would need in preparing for entry into the field as an Ethical Hacker or sitting their first cybersecurity exam.

This course is strictly hands-on. When discussing pentesting documentation and frameworks, I have provided videos with PowerPoint slides. The remainder of the course is lab work.

The knowledge pool for Ethical Hackers is only so deep. The materials within this course focus on the Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs) identified within the Specialty Areas of most exam providers.  

This course does not provide you with any specific answers to any exam.

Ethical Hacking fundamentals do not change from one exam to the next.  You can expect to see questions about Nmap, what commands were used to generate a specific output, and which tool would you use regardless of the exam vendor. 

You'll be expected to know which Pentesting Framework would be used to meet a specific condition.

You'll be expected to know what information should be delivered in an executive summary. You'll be expected to know how to scope an assessment and identify what document is used for what purpose.

You'll be expected to know the OWASP Top 10 and identify the hacking methodology used to exploit each one.

These are just a few fundamentals that remain constant from one Ethical Hacking exam vendor to the next.

This course provides you with the fundamental knowledge every ethical hacker is expected to know. Throughout this course, you will learn about cybersecurity tools, reverse shells, scripting basic, identifying output, and what commands were used to generate the output.

This course is strictly hands-on and applied learning. This course is designed to teach you many of the skills expected of an Ethical Hacker when starting out or sitting their first cybersecurity exam.

This course is dynamic meaning that it is updated as new material becomes available.